Is there a way to get a System.Configuration.Configuration instance based on arbitrary xml?

Question

I\'m trying to unit test a custom ConfigurationSection I\'ve written, and I\'d like to load some arbitrary configuration XML into a System.Configuration.Configuration for ea

Answer 1

There is actually a way I've discovered....

You need to define a new class inheriting from your original configuration section as follows:

public class MyXmlCustomConfigSection : MyCustomConfigSection
{
    public MyXmlCustomConfigSection (string configXml)
    {
        XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(configXml));
        DeserializeSection(reader);
    }
}

You can then instantiate your ConfigurationSection object as follows:

string configXml = "...";
MyCustomConfigSection config = new MyXmlCustomConfigSection(configXml);

Hope it helps someone :-)